China Music Radar: Nothing Gets Under It

China Music Radar (CMR) is an essential site that one must read in order to keep up with the Chinese music scene. What are the others, you ask? Well, Kungfuology and Layabozi, of course. There are Beijing sites to watch, too, but we’ll get to those later.

The man Archie Hamilton, who also happens to run Splitworks (one of the most active music promoters in China), keeps up CMR. So, obviously, the content runs more to the industry side of things than the actual gig review and analysis side. That’s cool. It’s always good to know what’s going on behind the scenes and on the horizon.

It’s a site you should be reading. It has a small but dedicated commenting culture, which Layabozi lusts after. You can learn about festivals, artists’ viewpoints, and issues on the scene, from all sorts of sources.